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WHO ARE THE
REAL AMERICANS?
Harper's Weekly" Had n Timely
and Interesting Editorial on that
Subject Last flout...
The discussion of the future foreign
puller of the United States In increas
ing In Interest the opponents of ex
pansion, as the New York Time ha
pointed out, having the advantogo of
character and ability. In the current
' number of Harper' Monthly In clear
and atronK argument jit behalf of the
maintenance of American institution
by ex-8cretary CarlUle. It follows
and supplement a recent nrllcle pub
lished In the aame periodical by Mr,
James Ilryra, whoso warning against
the peril of colonial expansion I
tempered by natural elf-retrnlnt of a
foreigner speaking to uh concerning
our own affalra, but la also quick with
tho ItitelllKent Intereat which Mr.
Hryee, beyond any other foreigner,
liUM In our republic. On the same aide
have ranged themselves Mi, Carl
Hchiirz, Mr, Ooorgn F. Edmunds, Sen
ator Caffery, and Mr, Cleveland,
among other Americana, and Mr. John
Morlcy, and other leading Liberal,
the long-time friend of the United
Htales, among englishmen. On tho
other ) we Imvu some exuberant
wni restless )oung tiuventarer, some
pollilclana who find phase-making and
demagogy easier than thinking, some
editors who mistake cerebral exi'lk
merit for patriotism and noise for
statesmanship, aorno commercial ad
venturers who are eagerly Interested
In thrt proposition that the government
ahull buy marketa for tbem with blood
and treasure, and aorno Englishmen,
Ilka Mr, Chamberlain, who realize that
If they can only perauade the United
HUte to take the Philippine, Great
Hrllaln will be aura to have thl coun
try for an ally In any trouble that rna
rl In China, between heraelf and
Russia, fiiircly If character and abil
ity ever lend weight to one aide of n
controveray, there I good reason to
auk the country to pause and consider
before plunging Into a departure to
ward world power, world responsibil
ities, and world trouble, on the
ground of the Intellectual and moral
difference between the opponent and
advocate of expansion.
There I another reaaon for Unlett
ing to the opponent of thl new move-
ment than the merit of their argil
menta. They are more consistently
American than the advocate of ex
panalon. They are the champion of
the fundamental principle of the re
public, the hopeful and confident be
llever In the soundness of the demo
cratic form of government, and In the
high achievement of II future, Tho
advocate of expanalon, on the other
hand, are proving their loa of faith
In democratic Institution and their
dlatruat of the American experiment.
They denounce a old-faahloned and
out grown Washington' and Jeffer
son counsel agalnat mingling
our affair and our detlnle with
those of monarchlal Kurope. They
bold that the. Declaration of Indepen
dence erred In asserting It to a "elf
vldent truth that government da
rive their just power from tffe con
sent of the governed." They scout the
word of Lincoln, and Inalat that "gov
ernment of the people, by the people,
and for the peoplo" ha perlahed from
the earth, notwithstanding Oeltyaburg
and Hunker Hill. Whether they Ilka
It or not and they profea not to like
It-they are really Imperial!, for
tbey are endeavoring to overturn the
democratic turm of government, to de
atroy the Ideals of the republic, to rev
oltilionlx American politic by chang
ing the United Motet from a popular
olf-government to a power ruling
over alien and unwilling people, who
will not be free and Independent, who
will be subject, wbo will not have a
vole In the making of the law by
which they are governed, and who wlil
bo taxed without being represented.
And yet these encmlex of American
Institutions, Iheae rebel ngiilnat tho
policy which linn made the United
State what they are, and which ha
built up American citizenship a It ex
lata, hnve the Insolence to declare tha.
thoe who favor the maintenance of
theee Institution and thnt policy are
"un-Amerlian." In other word, they
recognize the character of the tank In
which they are engaged by objecting
to the labels which properly deacrlbe
them, and by trying to altach one of
them to thdr opponent. Illustrations
of the old fnble of the thief who nought
to turn attention from himself to hi
honeat purauera are conalantly crop
ping up In modern life, but no rencwtl
of the old trick within our memo.-y
I iullf ho bold ns thl one made by
thoao American who are ao tired -If
their government and it foundation
principle that they desire to Join the
mediaeval procession, thn head of
which, fur the moment, I the C.ar of
Knasia.
The controlling Idea of the fnnlaalic
who are seeking to escape from r-ImiIiIIc-hi
to linpciliil condition wim
expreaaed by Attoiney-tjeneral (irlgm
In hi recent, apeech before the Itepub
llenn atntc convention r' !.. J. ,,.
Theie wna an iiniiNuiil amount of dem
agogy In thl speech, hut the aum and
aiibalance of It. waa that by annexing
dlatnnt lalnnda, and by aaaumlng th')
governnieiit. of aeml-anvnge people,
the jKilltlca of the United Rlatea would
grow In dignity and In Intereat, and n
new rce of lnteamen would aprlng
up, becauae the quetttlon that would
then preaenf, themaelvea for aidutloii
would appenl to Intellectuiil and ed.i
cnted men with more force than do the
oiieatlona of today, Domeatlc pollllua,
In the opinion of Attorney-Oeneral
Orljtga, are "too often artificial and
tranalent," and he Ionic for a time
when we alinll get away from them.
What are the problem which Mr,
Orlgg deaplaea, and what 1 the char
acter of our domeatle affair which ap
pear to him to he ao mean grid petty
In the flrat place, by adhering to the
policy which wa marked out for .ia
not only by the father, but by our
geographical altuatlon, and aubae
(tuently by the etiormou extent of our
territory, a mighty and conalatenf
whole, the American nation and th
American citizen have come to be
what they are, The men who have
built up thl country and madeitone of
the moat powerful and proxperou na
tion of the world are the product of
American Iriailtutlona, which have
made men elf-rpctlng and abao
loteiy Independent through equality of
privilege and equality of poweran
equality that will be at once destroyed
by the aaaumptlori of the power to gov
ern other people, We have attained
the helghlh which appear o low to
Mr, Orlgg largely by reaaon of our
freedom from foreign complication
and from the burden of war and mil
Itorlam, but mainly by the growth of
character developed by our recognition
of the right of every human creature
to hi personal liberty, and of every
eparate community to govern Itself
by It own law, and for the further
ance of It own conception of what I
beat for ltelf. These achievement
do not arreat Mr. Orlgg' attention,
nor doe It occur to him that thl re
public, the Isolated power of the Weal
em continents, guarding Ita own dead
nlea, not sharing In the International
polltlci of Kurope--the chief product
of which have been war and diplomat
ic Intrigue but attending to It own
affair, and developing It own citi
zen, ha had more Influence In Kurope
Itself In ameliorating both social and
political condition than all the rest
of the world combined. The domestic
politic which haa produced thl kind
of result seem to Mr. Orlgg to be f
"artificial and transient" that the
American people should adopt a new
policy should turn their back upon
the tasks which they have heretofore'
pursued, and which have made fori
human liberty ami fcutnan hppin-.
In inli that Ihetr winds mar flhd
InXnMi-n n thF(i,i.oti In e -tiin-IKng
the St! ill of Mjr t 111,. I'hlMii
I'linn, end hi Mthliig the cinim-n n
cf our plolr-4'led lii.lutirs Ihhi h
illi v of ri hit si Chin
As til the prewlll problem tehleh,
Mr. (iilRa wishes In escape, sme if
whlih ate due to perversion of our
pnllilial syalem, pi i verslona to which
the Impi'tUI plan would tlvs a Imtit
extension of life, their proper sol ml mi
la vital tn the Interest of the rrpuhlK
'they Involve and Include the question
arising out of our coitimerclnl Milley.
We are on the point of determining
whether we shall continue our seven
lielilh century trade m!lcy or follow
a more enlightened plan, We are cn
deiivoiiug to make the government
more elllcleut by reforming our civil
aeivlce. We are doing our ill m on I to
make political life more attractive to
tlie honeat and able man by the elim
ination df a corruption (hut la killing.
We ore engaged In solving eleiiienim y
but necessary problems In finance. We
are face to face with grave quest Ions
of reform In the administration of
JiiHtko We are beginning to struggle
wllh thn boas, who for tho moment
bus so revolutionized our form of gov
ernment that it I an absolution In
Urn selection of It ofllcer an absolu
tism presided over In each party In
morn than one of our state by an Ir
responsible person who la so powerful
that, In New Jersey, for example, Mr.
Orlgga could not secure a nomination
for any office from hi own party,
even If ft majority of the voter of hla
party wished to give It. to blni, If bis
party's stale rii.uli I no objected.
All thcae problem are difficult, li it
they are also Interesting and dignified,
They are beginning to attract the t!
iMitloii of the most Intelligent and heo
of the youngf r gcni-rulloii of voter.
They are not. only American question,
but tbey are of the utmost Importance
to the cause of democracy everywhere.
Indeed, upon their proper Notation de
pend the Immediate condition of it"
mocrary. They are, in our opinion,
Infinitely more Important than the
"'oil' 'n which the expansion brl would
have the republic engage, which Is,
reduced to Ita true terms, the opening
up of a few tropical field for the com
merce of a few American citizen, Not
only are these domestic question of
more moment than thn proposed lntr
ruiflonnl questions, but their aband
onment would, for the time at lenrt,
be the abandonment, of the effort now
in progress to make the democratic
form of government a effective a .in
admlnlalrutlve Instrument a it hm
been beneficent , to the Individual cit
izen. If It I un-American to promo' i
the Interest of America, then the op
ponent of expanalon are nn-Amerl-can,
On the other band, If It I mi
American to avoid the vital problem
of our country and our time, and to
abandon democracy for Imperialism,
then the expansionist must bear the
odium of the aeeuaallon.-Kdltorlal In
Harper' Weekly,
i
MOHTfyY AMKIUCAN HORN.
In examining th Hal of soldier
killed and wounded before Hanllngo
one struck by the greet proportion
of what may be termed distinctively
American nam which appear, It ha
been a common belief that the ma
Jorlty of our regular soldier were
foreigner, and the lmiy deduction
wna made that tbey were of the float
ing population, fighting simply for their
pay, and distinctly Inferior menially,
morally .unl physically, In one list
of 170 wounded 1 HO bore American
name-full 71 per cent-arid we think
It Jnai triable to claim that fully one
half of those having Irish name were
born In thl country. Consequently
If this llt i a tvp at all, at least
00 per cent of our army must be Ameri
can born. This I very gratifying to
know, All report from corrsKiid
nil and disinterested top! iJnfte
It praising the fine ohyslque, general
Intelligence and good conduct of our
enlisted met), Of their conduct In bat
tle, the loaae they sustained at Ban
tlago I the best proof, and It I grat
ifying to our pride to now know thnt
they are practically all American.
Army and Navy Journal,
Wben tha force of patriotism ira
divided treason comes out ahead.
If Roma does charitable act it la
to gala favor with tbosa ah can after
wards rob.
Truth may ba put In tha frava, bat
It won't stay tbr.
tha priest does an evil dajr"a wort
when ba get a child to go to tba paro
chial school.
Every fact ta an aatidou for aoma
foolish fancy.
Rome Oods slander a belter weapon
tbao abowlo knife.
AN IRISHHAN'S
GOOD SUGGESTION
If the Pope t.ovcs lrol.ml Let Him Now Turn Her
Annual Contribution of $245,000 Into
Her Poor Fund.
Hlr Just now there Is much distress
In the west of Irelnml. Our I ."id Mny
or, who la a "sterling nationalist," In
cocked hut, chain of olllce, and Human
ermine toua, accompanied by Mr. W,
Field, M. V., la lecturing the peasantry,
telling them all tlndr woes la caused
by llrltlsh rule, etc, As an Irishman
vnd a komiin embolic I do proteet
jaKalnst the sum of C no, nun belns ihi
' niiuily drained out. of thin country, to
he taken to Home and laid at the
pope's feet a a tribute from Ireland.
If the pope has such love ns he pro-fi-eses
for hi faithful Irish siiblecla,
why iloes be nit cancel the collection
of Ueter's pence for one year and hand
It over to the distress fund? I cannot
go Into the origin of thl collection of
l'eler's puice, but the Hlllerate Irish
peasantry are sure It Is n order from
Ki. I'cter himself that Is Imposed on
TUn "NKW JKHI'HAI.KM." Till?
MII.I.KNMIIM.
((lllilioua' "Decline and Fall of I lie Ho
iniin Kuiplre." Vol. I. Chapter XV.,
p. 31., A, I). 323.)
"Tlie ancient and popular dlcirlne
of the mllleiiiiliini 1,000 years, Kulogy
on the llible and II 1,000 chapleral
waa liitlmiilcly connected with the
second coming of Christ.
"As the work of Creation bad been
fhiU'Iicd In six day, tlo lr duiutlori In
the present, alnte, according to a tradi
tion on which wa attributed to the
prophet Klljah, wa fixed to alx thou
sand year.
"My the aame analogy It, was In
ferred that till long period of labor
and contention, which wa now almost
elapsed, would be succeeded by a Joy
ful Hi Mm Hi of a thousand years, and
I hat Christ, wllh the triumphant band
of saint and the elect who had es
caped death, or who hud been miracu
lously revived, would reign upon the
earth until the lime appointed for the
last and general reaurrectlori." (ail of
which applied to the laws I true, and
prospectively true, no doubt of man
kind under those laws, Knlvallori
come through knowledge, experience
and lnteKence, The llible contain
the knowledge, the art and science
of the ancient; by the a d of knowledge-universal
knowledge we over
come the vicissitude Incident to life;
and In thl sense, If universal -the
knowledge of ail that the llible contain-
practical knowledge-if tills la
what meant by the millennium, If
will certainly be a condition of thing
the nearest thereto-Judging from ob
servation of the operation of the
"arts and sciences" a now .ecn In the
United Hiiies and compared with a
slate of thing where those "art and
science" were unknown; say among
the Indlaristbe nearest, to state of
perfect happiness that, we can possibly
conceive, Ho that If we understand
the ancients aright their "millennium"
views had great confidence In knowl
edge, and It Influence for good on
their posterity, Immediate or remote,
I-t us be as practical aa they were,
and we shall have their "faith and
hope" "the evidence of thing not
seen," Our "art" live, even If we die;
Just a the "arts" of the ancients live,
Sltbo' they be dead.)
"Ho pleasing was this hope to the
mind of believers that the New Jeru
salem, the seat of this blissful king
dom, was quickly adorned with all the
gayest colors of the Imagination, A
felicity consist Ing of pure and spirit
ual pleasure would have appeared too
refined for Its Inhabitants, who were
still supposed to possess their human
nature and senses, A garden of Kden
solar system, with the amusements
of the pastoral life, was no longer
suited to the advanced state of society
which prevailed under the Itoman Km
plre," The fool, or Ignorant reads
the letter, the wise man reads the
sense.)
"A city was therefore erected of gold
and precious stones and a supernatural
plenty of corn and wine was lieetowed
on the adjacent territory. In the free
enjoyment of whose spontaneous pro
ductions, the happy and benevolent
theni. A penny levied on each limits'
In the mud,
I'reiii-bliig In Clarendon Street Chap
id the ottlcintlng priest drew a graphic
picture of the poverty of the pope, lie
said the pope wna a, "prisoner," pining
hla life nwny in the Vatican In poverty
and much distress, as ho glvea hla
money to the pour of home, therefore
he relied on a gis.d collect Ion from bis
Irish children. Needless to say the
servant girls and oilier gave lavishly,
Home time ago a site for a slutiio to
Father Muthcw wna given In Hiickvllle
atreel. For yenr It coiim not be built
on owing to the want of money. If ail
the priests In Ireland gave Is the dis
graceful hoarding that so long sur
rounded the Mi In would have been re
moved, but not one shining would
thoee priests give to one of their own
profession. Htieh are the glni lug evil
and anomalies (hat exist In this un
happy country. Yours, J, HVAN,
lit, Townsend street, Dublin,
people was never to be restrained by
any Jealous laws of exclusive prop
erly." If thl hlHiorlmi should rise
from iho grave and look over the
United States, I wonder If he would
not find a condition of comfort and
Impplni-M In many place under our
benefVcrit government exceeding hla
critical description?)
"The assurance of such ft mlllenlum
was carefully Incitlcaled by a succes
sion of father, from Justin Martyr
and lretiaus first., Martyr Dialogue of
Jiisiln with Trlphon and the Seventh
book of (.admit lus; sii-oud, Irenneiis
(LV, p. 455) one of the grossest Images
may be found J who conversed with
the Immediate deselple of the apostle
down to l.iicifiniiiis, who was preceptor
to the son of Consianllne,"
Two hundred and weventy year ago
the Uurlton landed In America and
brought the llible with them; about
the same time Hpaln, then the mistress
of the world, under Romanism, abol
ished the llible In Kpnln, Under Ibe
guidance of the llible the United
Hlates bus become In these two hun
dred and seventy-eight years a "Par
adise," and on the other hand Hpaln
ha become a "Hell," Intelligence has
made the United Htiitc a Paradise, 1
and Ignorance, under Romanism, ha
made Hpaln a Hell,
OF.O, W, HKTTKHWOKTJf,
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WtrTCH WOMKN AND TDK I'OI'K,
At i first meeting after the holi
days the !cotish Women's Protestant
Union sent, the following fetter to the
Pope; -"You lately sent a bttcr to
Hcotland Inviting the Hcottlsh people
to return to the Church of Home end
yo'i must be under a strange deiu-1
slon If you Imugine that there Is Hie
least Indication or desire on the part .
of (be people of this country to do so.
It. U only (ourteotia, however, to reply
to your hole, and in the name of the:
Hcotllsh Women's Protestant Union,
riuuibetlng nearly 1200 member all
over the roun'ry who agree wllh us we
vein ure to do so. Voil compliment ua
for living the Hi Me, and through our
study of that divine gift we decline
our Invitation, The llible enjoins ua
In 'Prove til thing, hold fast what is
good,' snd In obedience to that divine
cornand we have examined your posi
tion and the peculiar dogmas of your
c hutch, ou claim a supremacy and
siibinisklon which Is not In tha word
of Ood. Our countrymen rejected that
supremacy snd submission 300 year
ag'i and Irom that day Hcotland pros
pered while Roman Catholic countries
which accepted leas have gona bark
steadily, Hpaln furnishing thn lost ex
ample Your predecessor made a
snatch st one of the attributes of the
Deity, that of Infallibility, and you
have perpetuated the Impiety, Your
Church, wilh the sanction rtf your pre
dicemora, slied the blood of ninny
Protestant Christian for reading the
llible, In Siotland, Kngland, Frame,
Italy, the Netherlands, and oUkt
tlx ueands perished for tbla cause. In
your letter there Is no expn-ssion of
regret or sorrow for the pant. You
have added to the dogma of your
church what has no authority In Scrip
ture. The Immaculat conception of
Ibr I lif.ii ll'pln U op!r,J . Ha
lie'' i i"iim -i", u r"Mttvi
nliMi le s'l lit1'! i In t!ie f-
We tb not til il.r es'e i-f Ind ii ".-i ,
ti.it (h Miiiitu' of ibe iiis. nnr Hie
i l O tml Mr n SH'ilfl 'ig p-1.
I.... i, (Hi, m I'm liar i'oi of fbe
lilliKi Fur il,fi si'd n.l. t ii .(li
vn In - in 'ai' In t' I) to niir i -m-
lumil. .illi.ll, I i,l we i i -ti, li i lull
lullnn Wi eil s s 11 y tn save
our tiini.t'ier, our trl ml . ae I, In the
i-xU-til of .i'r elillllf. our beloved conn
li In tin 1,1,1 Hy wbb li lin.1 toia sd
IH f l '-." --(ibisirow llelalil.
HUM AN CATIKHdi' IN I OI.KUANCIC,
N'nl Ions: niai a nun Citilmlii' wa
Imprisoned In Himltt for not kindling
down thrt IhM was being rarried
Ihrouuti the si n-el a wbltn a Roman
Catholic proi -en id i ii was pausing. A
similar Incident bus ,. i . ', !a O'.V
olle Austria, showing tluit the perse
cuting spirit of i Inn i lies never chang
es, mid i luil If we allowed priestly do
minion once again In llils I tmiii i if
whether 1ithollc or Protestant for
they are birth equally blood at ulnml
and guilty of the most nhomlnahlo
crimes In the name of Christianity
fire and fuggot, Imprisonment and tor
ture would be again resorted to In or
der to compel men to abandon their
Intelligence, and to accept the opinions
of the Ignorant and supers! II Ions, Tho
following graphic account of the Inci
dent Is given by the special corre
spondent of the Ihilly New:
The extraordinary case of a Protest
ant foreigner lieltig detained In prison
at Iw hi for not taking his lint off to a
priest wbo was carrying the pyx to
a iliwlhbed Is still the subject of uni
versal com mem U M. Bleveklngr ha
been released on glvliia- ball for 1.000
florins, half of which was bdvanced by
Ibe mayor of Isrbl, after having npetit
two day and two nlflita In prison.
Hut he Is not allowed to leave Irtclil,
lie described Ibe scene a follow:
"On Hnlitrduy ril?bt, after nine
o'clock, I was 'walking In Hie dark,
thinking of the concert of the follow
ing day All at once I beard the tink
ling of a little bell, nliiili ioi my '!(
ulficance to my ear, A priest caught
me up, stopped me, and cried angrily,
"fake off your bat. I did not answer,
so much surprised was I. He roulirt
ued, "Whatever you are, n Jew, an
Atheist, or an unbeliever, you shall
take off your bat. All the roimn you
are rin educated person.' I nnawered
In French, 'Je ne vous comprend pus.'
Then be cried, furiously, 'I sbM have
you arrested,' It wa 1ben I lost pa
tience, for, being a Proteslanf, I had
no notion what I wa to take my hat
off for, I bad never een the function
In question arid, growing excited In
my turn, I cried, 'Are you a rogue or
a priest?' The priest then cried st top
of his voice, Hire Is one who scoffs
st our religion. He called me a rogue.'
Nobody had taken any notice until
that moment, but when the priest cried
those word nut loud ft hundred men.
women and children were round ma In
a moment all vociferating nt once,
The priest, went sway, when one man
came up to me and selxed my sleeve.
I cried out, 'Yon can Insult tun If It
Klvf you pleasure, but Just dare to
touch me,' Tbey moved back but fd
IowmI me still screaming to my bouse
door, I turned round and said, 'If one
of you follows me I will kill blni,'
Then tbey made themselves scarce."
After the concert on the following
day M. Hleviklng nt-kei) to be allowed
to ihange hla evening dress for more
suitable clothe to go to prison In. II
was refused and was taken Into a cell
wllh small olenitis dish up In tha
wslk a wooden chair and long board
fixed to tho wtill ou which lay what
bsiked like a bag of potatiH-s and wa
the mattress No light, or water were
allowed. In bis dress coat and white
cravat be had to lie down without
hope of sktii, Of course, be was
searched and relieved of everything
in hi pis kt. Next morning a little
water wa allowed but no towel. A
hotel keeMr's wife sent blm a lunch
eon and a bed during the day, all of
her own accord, to save the town's
reputation. No doubt M. Helvcklng
wa not allowed to write a letter In
any language but Herman, snd he can
not write Herman; so be wa unable
to give an a'-i-ount of hlmelf to hla
family. He received III letters, but
I bey bad ail M'en opened,
HI. Mulachy prophesied other things
besides the long line of popes down to
the last one, and It I claimed that they
have all Iteen fulfilled to the very let
ter, and particularly ha thl been tha
case, It Is asserted, with regard to bla
predictions as to the occupants of tha
papal chair. This being admitted. It
can safely be assumed that Cardinal
Oottl will be tha next pope.
